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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"Food Assistance"”.
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Three Essays on the Implementation of Food Assistance Programs
… to state and local officials administering food assistance programs for improving children’s utilization of services, nutritional intake, and food security. More specifically, this dissertation consists of three chapters pertaining to the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) and the …
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Essays on food assistance program participation and demand for food
<p>Household food demand and choices over food products are constantly evolving. Therefore better understanding of the relationship among household socioeconomic characteristics, expenditures, foods and nutrient choices of consumers and food prices is important to food producers, health …
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Evaluation of Food Assistance Programs and Implications of Patients' Health Information Seeking
… this dissertation evaluates the effectiveness of food assistance by gathering evidence from developing countries and the United States. The first essay applies a multi-market model to three developing countries and simulate recent spikes in staple prices and food aid impacts. Results indicate that …
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Bridging the Gap: Community Gardens as a Supplement to Senior Adult Food Assistance Programs
<p>Food insecurity and access to nutrition-rich food for senior adults receiving food assistance is an ever-growing concern in the United States. For households that lack accessible food, the availability of alternative sources of nutrition such as community gardens could be critically important to …
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Understanding How Participating in a Food-Assistance Program In Rural Guatemala Alters Household Dietary Choices
<p>There is growing concern that food-assistance programs may contribute to overweight and obesity, but the factors that determine households' decisions regarding food quality and quantity in the context of food aid are not well understood. We studied these decisions using the community randomized …
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Food Assistance Policy in the United States: A Meta-Analysis of Selected Hunger Surveys, 1981-1989
The purpose of this study was to establish consensus data regarding the characteristics of individuals who self-reported hunger and to use this information to make suggestions regarding future collection procedures and hunger policy decisions. Because of its systematic methodology, meta-analysis …
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Are Community Food Assistance Programs Meeting the Needs Of Food-Insecure Households in Pittsburgh's North Side Neighborhoods?
… with three householders and three community food program managers were conducted to explore if food assistance programs meet the needs of residents in Pittsburgh's North Side neighborhoods. Findings show that insufficient income is the main factor contributing to household food insecurity. …
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Language of Exclusion: A Mixed Method Evaluation of Text Complexity on Comprehension Within Selected U.S. Government Food Assistance Application Materials
… However, no extensive evaluation of government food assistance applications has been completed by an independent evaluator since the PWA’s passage. The objective of this exploratory sequential mixed methods research is to examine selected federal government food assistance applications …
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Consuming Poverty: The Unexpected Politics of Food Aid in an Era of Austerity
… dissertation tracks the remarkable growth of food assistance in the U.S. over the past fifteen years and asks what this expansion of food aid means for poor people living in New York City. Much of the scholarly literature on welfare policy in the U.S argues that social programs have become …
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Essays on policy, health, and education
… school-aged children. Because households share food, even if not every member of a household directly participates in a food assistance program like the free school lunch program, it is still feasible that every member of a household benefits from the program. I find that the receipt of free …
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Increasing access to healthy food at a cooperative grocery store
… of approaches, including public and private food assistance and community-based models, are being used to address food insecurity. In this participatory project, I worked with representatives of a grocery cooperative and interviewed social services staff and low-income residents from the …
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Socio-demographic and service provision characteristics associated with primary school attendance among the most vulnerable children in Tanzania
… least common included support meetings (6%) and food assistance (3%). Results from the OLS residualized change model determined that providing school fees, food assistance, and support meetings were all positively and statistically significantly related to MVC’s school attendance at Time 2. For …
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Food Security, Diet Quality and Health of Food Pantry Participants in the North End of Hartford
<p> Food insecurity is an increasingly urgent problem in the United States. Food security is defined as having “consistent access to enough food for active healthy living.” Those who are food insecure typically lack access to healthy food, especially fresh fruits and vegetables, facing increased …
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Decolonizing Diet
… that obesity and diabetes pose by a return to food ways practiced by Indigenous people prior to the arrival of Europeans and the replacement of indigenous foods with the colonial diet. The resurrection of indigenous food ways impacts health and wholeness, promotes cultural identity, and creates …
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Social policy and operations management
… quality risks in the US international food assistance supply chain in Eastern Africa. The core question is about what levers can be pulled in supply chain design to improve food aid quality. Chapter six concludes.
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An assessment of food production, processing and storage at community level in Kavango East region: A case study of Ndiyona, Mashare and Rundu rural east constituencies
Food security is often defined in terms food availability, food access and food utilization (USAID 1995). Food availability is achieved when sufficient quantities of food are constantly available to all individuals within the country. Such food items can be supplied through house hold production, …
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"""Some of these kids are gonna be my nurses, some of these kids are gonna be my doctors, but they can't be if they're hungry"": a qualitative inquiry of a school-based weekend feeding program"
Food insecurity is defined as the access to all people at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life. In 2009, 14.7 percent of households in the United States were food insecure, and that included 5.7 percent of households that had very low food security. In 10.6 percent of households …
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Prevalence and Determinants of Chronic Diseases Among Food Pantry Users in Washoe County
… of chronic disease has been associated with food insecurity, as individuals in these populations do not have access to healthcare and nutritionally safe foods due to financial constraints. The inception of food assistance programs in the early 1990's was to relieve food-insecure individuals …
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Food access, self-rated health, and diabetes self-efficacy among prenatal women in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic
… resulting in pandemic-related behaviors such as food and water stockpiling (FWS). Consumer FWS behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic posed a demand shock in the food supply chains, affecting access to food by nutritionally vulnerable individuals, particularly prenatal women with gestational …
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